Apocalyptics Quotes

#1. I'm one of those apocalyptics. From the start of my immigrant days, I've been fascinated by end-of-the-world stories, by outbreak narratives, and always wanted to set a world-ender on Hispaniola.

Junot Diaz

#2. But I don't write so much now, because they're too painful.

Bryan Ferry

#3. Death before Decaf!

Elizabeth Noble

#4. Don't be afraid to reinvent yourself. I have done it before and am doing it again. It makes life interesting.

C.L. McCourt

#5. Being original is beautiful. Copying someone is just being a fool

Tarang Sinha

#6. When I was young I was only thinking of writing, and whatever was going on was unreal and comparatively unimportant.

William Monahan

#7. The question that I started off with was, I thought, very simple. It was just 'Is there a massive black hole at the center of the Milky Way?' But one of the things I love about science is that you always end up with new questions.

Andrea M. Ghez

#8. I'm always talking to the writers because I find it so fascinating, how they're able to go to these different levels with the different stories, and have all these layers to peel back.

Taraji P. Henson

#9. That is many poets don't know how to tell a story and they don't have a sense of how to put things in order to tell a story and we thought the poets could learn from fiction writers something about developing a character over time who wasn't just you and also creating a narrative structure.

Edward Hirsch